The Sea-Migrations: Tahriib - Softcover

Yusuf, Asha Lul Mohamud

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1780373988 ISBN 13: 9781780373980

Publisher: Bloodaxe Books, 2017

Synopsis

Although Asha Lul Mohamud Yusuf has lived in exile in the UK for 20 years, she is fast emerging as one of the most outstanding Somali poets, as well as a powerful woman poet in a literary tradition still largely dominated by men. She is a master of the major Somali poetic forms, including the prestigious gabay, by which she presents compelling arguments with astonishing feats of alliteration. The key to her international popularity is in her spirit and message: her poems are classical in construction but they are unmistakably contemporary, and they engage passionately with the themes of war and displacement which have touched the lives of an entire generation of Somalis. The mesmerizing poems in this landmark collection are brought to life in English by award-winning Bloodaxe poet Clare Pollard. Somali-English dual language edition.

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Although Asha Lul Mohamud Yusuf has lived in exile in the UK for 20 years, she is fast emerging as one of the most outstanding Somali poets, as well as a powerful woman poet in a literary tradition still largely dominated by men. The Sea Migrations (Somali title: Tahriib), her first full-length book of poems, is published by Bloodaxe Books with The Poetry Translation Centre in November 2017.

About this edition

• Publisher: Bloodaxe Books
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1780373988
• ISBN 13: 9781780373980
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 138